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Tennessee Gentleman · February 8, 2018, 05:55 PM

He means that a bullet can knock over by it's energy an assailant and that it would not knock over the shooter as Newton's Third law implies. This is because the mass of the handgun would absorb the recoil (to about 99%).

February 8, 2018, 05:55 PM	#22
Tennessee Gentleman Senior Member Join Date: March 31, 2005 Location: Tennessee Posts: 1,775	He means that a bullet can knock over by it's energy an assailant and that it would not knock over the shooter as Newton's Third law implies. This is because the mass of the handgun would absorb the recoil (to about 99%). __________________ "God and the Soldier we adore, in time of trouble but not before. When the danger's past and the wrong been righted, God is forgotten and the Soldier slighted." Anonymous Soldier.